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MDI52B03NW00003
| Record Name(s) | Lakehead Mines - 1963, That Man (Sarpedon) - 1943, That Man Lake - 1943 |
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| Related Record Type | Partial |
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| Record Status | Developed Prospect With Reported Reserves or Resources |
| Date Created | 1979-Jun-01 |
| Date Last Modified | 2022-Mar-02 |
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Primary Commodities: Iron
Secondary Commodities: Gold
Township or Area: Louisa Lake Area
Latitude: 48° 7' 50.35" Longitude: -91° 16' 19.55"
UTM Zone: 15 Easting: 628565.9 Northing: 5332265.6 UTM Datum: NAD83
Resident Geologist District: Thunder Bay South
NTS Grid: 52B03NW, 52B03SW
Point Location Description: General
Location Method: Conversion from MDI
1943-44: Sarpedon Mines Ltd. carried out dip needle and geological surveys, and drilled 39 DDH totalling 3660 m. 1949: Head of the Lakes Iron Ltd. drilled 21 DDH totalling 5734 m. 1951: Head of the Lakes Iron Ltd. drilled 12 DDH totalling 3532 m. No assessment files were found on record. This prospect occurs within Quetico Provincial Park, so it is not open for staking.
Province: Superior
Subprovince: Wawa
Terrane: Wawa-Abitibi
Geological Age: Archean
| Rock Type | Rank | Composition | Texture | Relationship | Ironstone-unsubdivided | 1 | Is |
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| Rank | Mineral Name | Class | Economic Mineral Type | Alteration Mineral Type | Alteration Ranking | Alteration Intensity | Alteration Style |
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| 1 | Hematite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 2 | Magnetite | Economic | Ore | ||||
| 1 | Chert | Economic | Gangue | ||||
| 2 | Jasper | Economic | Gangue |
Sep 24, 2018 (Therese Pettigrew) - NE-trending magnetite-hematite-quartz (chert, jasper) iron formation extending about 12.9 km in length and up to 91.44 m in width, averaging about 22.86 m width.
| Zone | Year | Category | Tonnes | Reference | Comments | Commodities |
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| That Man Lake | 1963 | Unclassified | 100000000 | MDC011 | 100,000,000 tons of magnetite-hematite averaging slightly over 30% Fe | Iron 30 Percent |
| That Man Lake | 1949 | Unclassified | 43752000 | MDC011 | 43,752,000 tons averaging 31.06% Fe over a length of 16,730 feet and to a depth of 300 feet | Iron 31.06 Percent |
Map - Atikokan-Lakehead sheet, geological compilation series, Kenora, Rainy River and Thunder Bay districts
Publication Number: M2065 Scale: 1:253,440 Date: 1997
Author: Pye E.G., Fenwick K.G.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Mono - Iron deposits of Ontario
Publication Number: MDC011 Page: 309-310 Date: 1968
Author: Shklanka R.
Publisher Name: Ontario Dept. of Mines
Location:
Part - Mines of Ontario
Publication Number: ARV25-01.003 Page: 167-177 Date: 1998
Author: Sutherland T.F., Collins E.A., McMillan J.G., Bartlett J.
Publisher Name: Ontario Bureau of Mines
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